Energon... The life source of all Cybertronians. 

And they were at an all time low. 

Thankfully, Red-Alert had found them an untouched mine. If they could get in there, get a fair share of energon, and get out un-detected, they'd be good for about two months.

"Motorlight, you'll be accompanying me. The rest of you, you're on standby." Springlock stated, once she received the information.

"Yes yes yes! Finally! Maybe we'll run into some con scum!" The scout yelled. It had been awhile since any of them had fought, and some of them, namely Seablaze and Motorlight, were becoming antsy.

"NO! What if you become injured? What if you don't bring enough energon back to repair you? Or to keep all of us sustained? And, and..." Red Alert questioned. 

"Relax a little Red. I'm sure they'll be fine." Sunblast said, smiling. Red Alert nodded, and opened their Ground-Bridge for the coordinates of the mine.

"Just don't get injured." Red Alert said, grimacing slightly. Motorlight hardly ever listened to him.

"We won't Red Alert. One of us will com when we need a bridge." Springlock replied, and then transformed and drove through the bridge. Motorlight grinned evilly towards Red, and followed after their leader.

Seablaze huffed. Someone was going to end up a different color by either the end of today, or tomorrow. At least she wasn't Sideswipe, as that'd be much worse, from what he had heard about the red frontliner.

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As the two left through the bridge, four Autobot signals showed up, in the same mine. Apparently, they had found the same deposit as well.

"Nononono... and I can't even reach them..." Red Alert muttered, after trying to warn them. The cavern was too dense for comlinks to work.

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Springlock and Motorlight transformed, once they were through. The bridge immediately closed behind them, incase they did run into anyone.

Ratchet looked over, hearing the bridge. He had no need to be here, but Optimus had ordered him to go along. He hadn't been out of base in forever.

He narrowed his optics, drawing his blades, seeing the two bots. The scanners should've picked up their signals by now, if they had an operational Ground-Bridge.

Neither Bumblebee, or Arcee had heard the bridge open, being drowned out by the drilling.

The two Neutrals looked around, hearing the noise the drills caused. Had their signals been noticed, or was this a coincidence?

"The scanners must not have picked up on them..." Springlock muttered, drawing her daggers.

"Um... who's that?" Motorlight quietly asked, spotting Ratchet. Springlock looked over, quite surprised to see the old medic.

"Well... I had no idea he was still online. That's Ratchet." She replied quickly.

Ratchet walked over, wanting to know who these bots were. He didn't recognize Springlock, due to her armor and color change. The medic had not really known Motorlight that well.

"Who are you?" He asked, narrowing his optics at them.

"I am Nightarrow, and this is Motorlight. And you are?" Springlock asked, using an alias she used sometimes.

"Hm. I am Ratchet. Are you Autobot, or Decepticon?"  He asked, not remembering hearing of either of the designations before.

"We're Ne-" "We're Autobots. We are not registered as such, but we fight under the name. Our insignias were too heavily damaged, and we had to replace our badges." Springlock said, cutting off Motorlight. 

"Ratchet! Bee and I are... who are they?" Arcee asked cautiously.

"They say they are Nightarrow and Motorlight." He replied. He did not exactly trust the two, but neither had acted hostile so far.

":Um... Why does she look slightly like Wheeljack? She's not too close, but she looks like him.:" Bumblebee said, looking between the two.

"I... don't know this Wheeljack." Springlock said, acting as if she'd never heard the name.

Ratchet sighed. "I believe we are ready to go back to base. If Optimus will allow it, you both can as well." He said.

Motorlight grinned, happy to meet new bots.

"Ooh! Cool... I can't wait to meet everyone!" She said, acting happy.  She didn't want to see any more Autobots, though they didn't want to raise suspicion.

"Optimus... We require a Groundbridge. And, if you allow it, we are bringing back two recruits by the designations of Nightarrow and Motorlight." Ratchet said, comming the Prime. Their coms were able to reach this deep, due to Ratchet focusing more on the communications channels.

"Of course. But take caution, as we do not know if they are fully committed to the cause." Optimus replied. He was glad that they had new soldiers, but he had never heard of the two recruits.

He then opened a Bridge, for the location of the mine. Ratchet picked what energon he had mined, along with Arcee and Bumblebee. Springlock and Motorlight then grabbed a few raw crystals. They'd need them later... They followed the Autobots through the bridge.

'Red's going to have a fit...' Springlock thought, shaking her helm. It'd take forever to explain why. She could only hope that nothing went wrong while they were at the Autobot base.

Hey guys... sorry for the hiatus... My only excuse is that I have none... I was just a lazy ass fuckwad... and writer's block.

Thank you TARN22DJD for giving me the idea... along with LitchKQueen and shadowstreaker for all helping me. This probably wouldn't be published without them helping me past writer's block, whether they know it or not. Thanks!

Let us all hail the Wrench God Ratchet.